The excellent infographics blog Visualizing Economics featured this interactive infographic from the USA Today last weekend. It’s an overview of U.S. incomes and income-tax rates since 1940. You enter an income and year; it shows you the corresponding (inflation-adjusted) income and tax burden for each year in the series, as well as what the taxes were spent on (Medicare, national defence, etc.). It’s a good example of the work established media like USA Today have doing on the web over last few years.
I like several things about it:
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